Tyrone Dwayne OwensA Hoover man was charged today in an August 2009 break-in of a 77-year-old Hoover woman's apartment that left the woman badly beaten, police said.

Hoover police Capt. Jim Coker said new evidence in the break-in led to Tyrone Dwayne Owens, 24, being charged with burglary in the Aug. 8 incident that occurred at an apartment in the 3404 building of Chapel Park Apartments on Patton Chapel Road.

Police said the front door of the woman's apartment was kicked in and the apartment ransacked. The woman suffered cuts and multiple broken facial bones in a physical assault. She recovered after two surgeries.

Police said Owens lived in an adjoining apartment complex at the time of the burglary. He has been in the Jefferson County Jail since Oct. 6 on unrelated burglary charges. His bond in the Hoover burglary case is set at $60,000.